Acropora Propagation

[chefjpaul]

So clean and professionally detailed.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

A hot summer day in the greenhouse!

 

[ScottB]

Geothermal on a typical residential home has a super loooooong payback period. But for your purposes, and in a location with 105F degree swings in temp, it must have been a no-brainer. You're already will into the money on energy savings I imagine. Very smart.

Curious:
a) LED versus traditional MH / T5. You made this call due to which parameters? Temp control? Maintenance? Popularity of LED in the hobby?
b) Versus tropical latitudes, your light period varies much more. Do you / can you adjust for that? Or does the livestock just "deal with it"
c) Lastly, that is a lot of livestock. Do you also supply to distributors & LFS? I am the part time coral guy for my LFS, so always interested in livestock supply.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

Geothermal on a typical residential home has a super loooooong payback period. But for your purposes, and in a location with 105F degree swings in temp, it must have been a no-brainer. You're already will into the money on energy savings I imagine. Very smart.

Curious:
a) LED versus traditional MH / T5. You made this call due to which parameters? Temp control? Maintenance? Popularity of LED in the hobby?
b) Versus tropical latitudes, your light period varies much more. Do you / can you adjust for that? Or does the livestock just "deal with it"
c) Lastly, that is a lot of livestock. Do you also supply to distributors & LFS? I am the part time coral guy for my LFS, so always interested in livestock supply.

a) all those factors
b) adjusting amount of shade cloth
c) not at this time

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

It was time today to give our greenhouse colonies their periodic haircut. About 120 frags.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

 

[Ruben's Reef]

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